The Christmas carp might have escaped the palace, however Agnes was not so fortunate. On the penultimate episode of The Regime, “All Ye Faithful,” Andrea Riseborough’s steadfast right-hand girl met her premature demise, shot to demise within the palace throughout a violet rebellion. Riseborough dropped by the Still Watching podcast to speak about Agnes’s unceremonious finish in episode 5 and workshopping Agnes’s backstory with costar Kate Winslet.
“Poor Agnes,” mentioned Riseborough on the podcast. “It’s so horrible, the faceless fallout of war.” Riseborough had a easy clarification as to why Agnes caught round Chancellor Elena’s corrupt regime so long as she did, regardless of being introduced with a number of alternatives to flee the nation: “I think Agnes probably wouldn’t have continued to be complicit working in the palace had her son [Oskar] not been suddenly found in great favor by Elena,” mentioned Riseborough. “That just complicated Agnes’s whole situation to the point where she found herself co-parenting with a dictator, which is trying at the best of times. She’s trapped, essentially.”
The To Leslie star dove deeper into the difficult relationship between Agnes and Chancellor Elena, revealing that she and Winslet started speaking about their dynamic whereas taking pictures their movie Lee—earlier than even arriving to The Regime set. “Kate and I discussed the idea that perhaps Elena had, because of her own insecurities, requested Agnes to keep her hair short,” Riseborough shared. “As our own private backstory, [Elena] stripped her of what was perhaps a former identity.” Like any good actor, Riseborough additionally got here up with a backstory to elucidate Agnes’s life earlier than the palace. Initially, there was an concept that maybe Agnes had run the palace earlier than Chancellor Elena got here to energy, however Riseborough had one other concept in thoughts.
“I suggested to Will [Tracy] that perhaps Agnes should be working class,” she mentioned. “[Agnes] should represent in some way the proletariat—the people outside whose decisions are being made for them by some very disconnected people inside of this horrible regime.”
Has Chancellor Elena’s regime formally fallen? Will each Elena and Zubak survive the coup? And what’s going to occur to Agnes’s son, Oskar? We’re only one episode away from discovering out who will wind up on high of The Regime. As all the time, ship any questions, feedback, or ideas concerning the collection to Still Watching at stillwatchingpod@gmail.com.